Word: lending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tried, during the last few years, to get some of their men into the lacrosse ranks in the spring. Unfortunately for both sides their efforts have not been as successful as they deserved to be. But aside from the football players every man who can handle a crosse should lend his presence on Jarvis to aid the twelve. It is still early for a large crowd, but those who wish to learn this interesting game should begin early. A little perseverance will enable new men to get the hang of it, and then all is plain sailing...
...Abbott was a man of great leaning, being unexcelled in this country in Biblical criticism and scholarship. He was extremely devoted to his work and was always ready to lend a helping hand to any scholar without exacting hand to any scholar without exacting any return. The most striking feature of his career is the great labor he has bestowed on the works of other men. As this in most cases received but slight acknowledgment, It is impossible to give a complete list of his works, which are very numerous. He was one of the American committee appointed to assist...
...will help persuade the authorities that the resolutions are not what are wanted should be carefully worked up and brought forward tonight. Every one should be present and speak if he has any new views to present in this matter or if he is not prepared to speak to lend his weight to the arguments advanced by his presence there. There is much influence in numbers at such a meeting and the more there are present the more the faculty will be influenced by the meeting...
...hold a race meeting in the early part of June, and that the club should enter the League of American Wheelmen in order that the records should be accepted as valid. The New Haven clubs have also agreed to turn out at that time in full force, and thus lend all in their power to make the meeting a success. Hendee, the champion, will enter these races and try to lower the records in every distance up to ten miles. There may be some of the fastest riding ever seen in this country at the meet. The club will have...
Here and there one meets today a few men who are a little belated in their work, who are still grinding through some stiff or special examination, and who are in cap and gown, and these lend a most pleasing variety to the general quaintness-almost weirdness-of the place and day. For really one has the feeling of living in the middle ages, looking upon these old, gray, time-worn, moss-covered edifices and meeting here and there in cloisters and in other unlooked-for places these sombre-seeming youths under these mortar-board caps and in these long...